Fung-wong may refer to four tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean. The name, contributed by
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
, refers to
Lantau Peak
Lantau Peak or Fung Wong Shan (literally "Phoenix Mountain") is the second highest peak in Hong Kong and the highest point on Lantau Island, with a height of above sea level. Name origin
The mountain is actually made up of a pair of peaks, on ...
(Phoenix Mountain), the highest point in Hong Kong's
Lantau Island
Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...
. The name is also the Cantonese pronunciation and romanization of the word for the
Chinese phoenix
''Fènghuáng'' (, ) are mythological birds found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds. The males were originally called ''fèng'' and the females ''huáng'', but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and ...
(鳳凰, fènghuáng).
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Typhoon Fung-wong (2002) (T0211, 15W, Kaka) – recurved out of the ocean
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Typhoon Fung-wong (2008)
Typhoon Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme, was a deadly typhoon in the 2008 Pacific typhoon season which made landfall on Taiwan and China. Typhoon Fung-wong reached peak intensity of a Category 2 typhoon on the Saffir-Si ...
(T0808, 09W, Igme) – struck Taiwan and China
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Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2014) (T1416, 16W, Mario) – struck Philippines, Taiwan and Eastern China
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Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2019) (T1927, 28W, Sarah) – churned out of the ocean
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